How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

I love America. It's such a positive country.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form; proving dreams really can come true.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. Its in the blood.

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, the power of subduing the elements, of using the secret virtues of minerals, of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.

Jack of all trades, master of none

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it's during hard times that Westies come together.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

Every love that leads away from His love is in fact a punishment only a love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and pure love.

I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Take the road less traveled...there's less traffic!

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.