I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

Crawfish have ding dongs and vaginas.

Women with whiskers... its a bummer.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.