My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

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.

You are the result of the tension between who you think you should be and what you really are.

Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got?