If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

In every set of circumstances, we get to create our own experience.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

Arise and shine.Arise and fulfill your destiny.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.