If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

At the time of my deepest love I realized that I am the Universe.

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.