My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

You matter.

We are wiser than we know.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Let's build a battery plant here.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

You don't have to have more in order to be happy.