Every accepted public quote

“When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to...”

“Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.”

“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve...”

“I'm not antisocial. I like people.”

“As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was...”

“My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.”

“All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet....”

“I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.”

“Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.”

“Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something th...”

“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”

“The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'”

“The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.”

“If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.”

“I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.”

“If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.”

“If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is at...”

“Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.”

“Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All eff...”

“'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.”

“Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.”

“But who knew the words, when said by the right person, by a boy who raises your temperature, move heat like nothing else? Shoot a shock of warmth from your curls to your toes?”

“My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.”

“People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.”

“If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.”

“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”

“All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meanin...”

“So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush is dead. It's over. It doesn't exist anymore.”

“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

“I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow.”

“You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.”

“You are not a problem that needs solving.”

“The time has passed for secrets. Today we fly for real.”

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

“I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.”

“Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too often, they begin to view and treat their teams, and especially thei...”

“If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.”

“The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.”

“I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.”

“Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.”

“With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are all kind of different, the chorus was there along with 'The Love Shack' - I th...”

“My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.”

“The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.”

“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”

“You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.”

“Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.”

“When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with...”

“I've always been fascinated with what motivates people's transgressions and the scandalous journey into infamy.”