The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.