Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.