The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.