People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

A girl can dream can’t she? My new life plan is to stumble into every office of a CEO until I find a Christian Grey.

history has no overall direction or purpose

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.