We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.