Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific.

I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

I became a human placebo.

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

It's time for a brother to be Bond.

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

I love Martin Amis.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

Doing the right thing has power.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

I've been treated really well for 'Stick It.' There was this cop and he pulled me over and he was like, 'Oh my God, you're in 'Stick It.' I said, 'Yes. Yes. You're the last person I would think would be pumped up by this movie'. He let me go, so that was nice.

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.