If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Honesty is all you need.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

My hero is Roger Federer.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.

There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. 'Tonight' is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like 'Nightline' on ABC is a big mistake.

There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you're always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick.

I love myself exactly as I am.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Let men see let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.

I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

Clean plates don't lie.

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.