A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Weve all got our self destructive bad habits the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

The Breakfast of Champions isnt cereal its the competition

I used to have a drug problem now I make enough money.

Music is like girlfriends to me Im continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage.

As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Take pride in how far youve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But dont forget to enjoy the journey.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

All the money you make will never buy back your soul.

I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.