Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

Don't pull your love out on me baby.

Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads!

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.