I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.

Imagination is a sacred place.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.