Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

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.

Once alone stop learning, it is also the time when death is imminent.

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.

Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

That's one of the main thing with the lyrics - not giving any answers.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.