It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.

I can literally hear you getting fatter.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.