I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.

You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.

If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael - and we actually cut class to get tickets - was INXS at the Garden.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.

Life is about enjoying your success!! Success is nothing but weaknesses turned inside out.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.