I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

Resistance carves you into strength.

Sometimes I think that we're the aliens.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.