People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.

I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

Yes, I have made a woman cry.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.