I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

Everybody grows up.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

My dad was a great dad.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

My fans go crazy over jaw clenches. They also love hand veins... they're infatuated with hands in general.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Instead of cursing the darkness, be the one to light a candle.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility which then leave them less money for financing their growth.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

My face is my passport.

I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.

The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.