I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

You are responsible for your calling and you must give account

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.