I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.

Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

In my case, the business chose me.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

The key for us number one has always been hiring very smart people.

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Every door is another passage another boundary we have to go beyond.

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.