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1. I don’t want my album coming out with a ‘G’ rating. Nobody would buy it.
2. Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It’s not my position to judge. It’s God’s position to judge.
3. You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can’t do it. If you don’t believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you’re the one who has to do it.
4. I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.
5. I’m an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena — I’m going to stay out of it, right out.
6. A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it’s variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
7. Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative — a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.
8. I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he’s going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.
9. I never smile unless I mean it.
10. We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.
11. If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.
12. Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
13. This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
14. I got fitter when I did ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ I wore a loincloth — that’s a lot of motivation!
15. I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night — that’s when those creative juices begin flowing.
16. Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for ‘Puppy Love’ and I just didn’t want to. Then I thought I’d have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
17. Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
18. I didn’t grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
19. When you record an album and it goes platinum… yeah, you’re in the studio and you work hard for months, but it’s not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everything hurts.
20. I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.