Intentions are ambitious liars.

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done.

Don’t despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.

Americans don't win. Our country doesn't win. We don't win at trade. We don't win. We can't beat ISIS.

Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.