You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

I’m a dancer who cannot dance.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.