All I hope, Dean, is someday we'll be able to live on the same street with our families and get to be a couple of oldtimers together.

I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since.

'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.