Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later wont fall.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.

A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.

Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I'm subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.