I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

I can assure you that the life outside the front door is full of optimism and energy

I swear." His hand came up in the three-finger Boy Scout pledge.Annie couldn't help by laugh. "You may be many things, Jake. But an innocent Boy Scout isn't one of them.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.