Quotes from Barry Manilow

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

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

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

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

QVC has been very good to me.

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

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

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

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.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

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.

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

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

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

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 think my music is like anchovies–some people like it, some people get nauseous.

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

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

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams.

'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.

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.

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.