Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love.

Punctuality is the thief of time

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.