Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.