These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move. — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
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. — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
