Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind! There was something so special about that place...even your emotions had an echo...and so much space!

I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.

You promised to be mine, " he looked deep within her eyes, "mine forever.

There is always room at the top.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.