Every accepted public quote

“I'm grateful to Donald Trump's pro-life views, and I'm grateful that he's expressed those views so publicly and openly.”

“Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I...”

“The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.”

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

“When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.”

“A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.”

“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”

“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a ver...”

“Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.”

“After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.”

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window...”

“When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At t...”

“Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.”

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon...”

“There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't wan...”

“I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals...”

“When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...”

“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”

“Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only...”

“When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!”

“I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.”

“My favorite website is The Daily Beast, and I also like 1stdibs.com, where I'll browse for great rugs or classic furniture.”

“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.”

“I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.”

“No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.”

“I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.”

“I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different deci...”

“Losing yourself in these worldly affairs is a mere joke to yourself”

“My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room...”

“We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.”

“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”

“It's not in our interest, nor in the interest of other countries in the region, for terrorists to regroup again.”

“Find someone to love and to get lost in. Find someone to depend on and to trust fully.”

“Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.”

“It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.”

“Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.”

“I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.”

“Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.”

“I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw be...”

“As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.”

“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”

“Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.”

“I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong...”

“I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.”

“I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking...”

“When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.”

“Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.”

“I could not think without writing.”