I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.