Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

QVC has been very good to me.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.