I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

What will I be doing in 20 years time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care.

I certainly don't have any aspirations to live to 70. It would be so boring. I will be dead and gone long before that. I won't be here... as far as I'm concerned, I've lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow, I don't give a damn. I've lived. I really have done it all.