When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.

With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Super early-stage companies have a village that form around them for support.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

Cities must be fun.

People with ADHD often have a special feel for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way methodically.

I have an awful lot of energy.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

I stay off the Internet.

I started tennis around age 2.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to vader.