You too can be as influential as the people that you admire. It is a matter of having the willingness to work relentlessly for it.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.