I don't really shout that much.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

In the center of my being, I am floating with the waves of time in the ocean of light.

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.

If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.