You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.