"If you really pay attention to me, I'm not the most serious person."

“I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.”

Source : "Tony Bennett: The musician and the artist". www.today.com. September 23, 2007.

“It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck”

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”

“In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.”

“Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.”

“This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do larger movies or get jobs so they can familiarize themselves with a studio head and get the opportunity to deliver and impress - or maybe direct a smaller movie. It will take a considerable amount of time to rectify. It's very difficult because it starts at the top.”

“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.”

“My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.”