I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.