To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

Love is the heart of a heart

the path of change is unpredictable.

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.