I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

I love what I do, and I intend to keep playing.

...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Give me your resolve. Believe in Yuna.