I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

Life can only be understood backwards.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

Stumbling is not falling.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.