It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.