“The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back a...” — Linda Ronstadt Quote

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

I think at some point in life, everything in life has let me down. But music was always my constant. Like, when I had nothing else, I had a boombox.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.