Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I never smile unless I mean it.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.