It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Don't agonize, organize.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.