The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

There are a dozen St. George soldiers hiding in that maze, ” my trainer said. “All hunting you. All looking to kill you. Welcone to Phase Two of your training, hatchling.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.