Through your rags I see your vanity.

Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those gold and silver discs given to singers. I wish I could take all of them to the goldsmith and draw the metal out.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.