Every accepted public quote

“With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.”

“Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playin...”

“I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn't know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I'm thrilled with the lesbi...”

“The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in p...”

“Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.”

“The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.”

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”

“It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.”

“My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull...”

“To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.”

“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.”

“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence...”

“Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.”

“It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with th...”

“For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling undertained, there's George Lopez and Jimmy Fal...”

“There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.”

“I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.”

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”

“There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Educa...”

“We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.”

“When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar job or a low-skilled service job. When I'm talking about t...”

“Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.”

“A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.”

“Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.”

“Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.”

“Mr Trump is a different type of leader not burdened by rigid ideology. He does not think like a politician, nor does he talk or sanctimoniously moralise like one, making him an easy target f...”

“This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with peopl...”

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”

“The problem with Deep South to me is that there was a group that were tight with the boss, and they would always go out and drink and have barbeques. Then, when WWE would say, 'Who should we...”

“The point is that you can't be too greedy.”

“What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.”

“I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.”

“We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.”

“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

“If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.”

“Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.”

“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they had forgotten that their bodies are inclined to death that the inside...”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”

“In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam H...”

“Travis Scott is definitely a big inspiration. Lil Wayne was a big one. Lil Wayne, 50 Cent. Those were my two, like, big ones growing up. Then I got into Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa phase.”

“This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving fr...”

“Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.”

“So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I...”

“I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most o...”

“As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.”

“I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.”

“I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.”