When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.