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.

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

I always was and always will be optimistic.

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

It feels good. When you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it’s okay again. That’s what meditation is to me.

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.