I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer.

Don't pull your love out on me baby.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

Surely you ain't weak.You just can't accept yourself as a strong person.

You can’t keep her.”I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

If you can build it, you can unbuild it

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.