People will do odd things if you give them money.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I enjoy 'Murphy Brown, ' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.