I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

Immortality goes through dead before all.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.