No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

I hate everybody.

That audience is there for me.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

You are what you are.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

I am in control at all times.

Death is a very important part of life.

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.

I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

Every show could be the last one.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I had never seen a computer when I went to college.

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10 inspiration and 90 perspiration.

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

Washington Is kind of dead. It's a nice place, but It's not like New York.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.

The difference between goals and mission is reflected in the difference between I want to get married and I want to have a successful marriage.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.