“I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and...” — Barry Manilow Quote

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

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

“I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.”

“When you've fought and fought to keep positive and to keep creative even though there was not a space to be creative, well, you show me any human who is not angry after 60 years of that.”

“Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.”

“I owe my career to J.J. Abrams. He fought for me.”