When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

When you're alive hope is smiling for a great life.So don't delay, hope for the best, take actions and have a great life.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.