“Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't c...” — Neil Diamond Quote

“Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.”

“I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.”

“You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.”

“I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.”

“Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.”

“When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.”

“It's really deep to me. Although it seems to many people that I'm making silly music, I'm really serious.”

“I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.”

“DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.”

“I think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I'm sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it's worth it.”

“I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.”