That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?