There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape, we didn't get a good night's sleep, we're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.