I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

He never looked back, the day he realized the power of presentations.

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

Places where prostitution is legal, you find much better health care, fewer cases of disease and illegal abortions. There's really nothing to be gained by keeping prostitution illegal.

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.