I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out.

Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.

Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.