At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

Do not worry about winning or losing

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Men meet; mountains, never.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.