I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Just do what feels right.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

You cant reverse fame. You can lose all the money but youll never lose people knowing you.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.