Barry Manilow

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I love any opportunity I have to make music.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I believe in my writing.”

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

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

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

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

“Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.”

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

“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.”