Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful.

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled else suffered it will set the heart on fire.

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

In accordance with the divine wisdom genesis can only take place through destruction.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.

Best advice on writing I've ever received. Finish.