The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.

The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.