I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

There is magic in all life.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Thou lump of foul deformity!