The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body.This grief. How slowThe body is to realizeYou are never coming back.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.