You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.