This town was built on nepotism.

This town was built on nepotism.

I never thought about being famous.

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

The show has become my therapy.

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

The people who can save this party are Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or John Kasich.

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

The older we get, the more we desire to reclaim our body at 25; we'll take our face at 35, the elasticity of our mind at its most powerful, to return ourselves somehow to our most vital moment of rigor and protean creation.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.