I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

When I'm in focus mode, I do training six times a week. Carbs only in the morning. And I try not to eat at least two hours before bed.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing