Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I don't categorize movies. I just look for great stories.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.