We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.

For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

You're never completely ready...It just becomes your turn.