The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Only the ‘Right belief’ gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as ‘Principle’.

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

You know, circumstances can change, but I'm just not going to let my head go there.

Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.