I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.