I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.