I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.