A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

Thank God for the theater.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

It's the way we deal with what fate hands us that defines who we are.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.