The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure

why love tomorrow when you can love today.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.