They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.

People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

No one likes to be criticized.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.