“Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.”
“I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.”
| Elisabetta Canalis, Actress (1978) |
| Jan Egeland, Public Servant (1957) |
| Anselm Feuerbach, Artist (1829) |
| Ben Folds, Musician (1966) |
| Sigmar Gabriel, Politician (1959) |
| George Jones, Musician (1931) |
| Florence Kelley, Activist (1859) |
| Frederick Kelly, Athlete (1891) |
| Richard Lamm, Politician (1935) |
| Stanislaw Lem, Writer (1921) |
| Johnny Cash, Musician (2003) |
| Ernst Haas, Photographer (1986) |
| Serge Lang, Mathematician (2005) |
| Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer (1986) |