I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.