If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.