BARRY MANILOW

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

I believe in my writing.

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.

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.

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.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

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

Sneakers are not my thing.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.

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

'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.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.