You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

This is America. You're allowed to have your views.

The first time I saw Cricket, I loved her. Little did I know that skinny, goofy girl would one day grow up to be a great dragon slayer. I would have pegged her for a shoemaker.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I try to exercise as much as possible and eat healthy. But most importantly, I try to make sure that I'm near people who inspire me to be a better person.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.