I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...

The aim of life is self-development

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

Once you know what's in your food you can't unlearn it.