Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.