I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

A family is a mystery.

You gain control over any situation with a positive outlook.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.

You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.