I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Language is butchered by the media

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.