I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I can do a gig without an instrument.

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

I love to play music.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I like to do the splits onstage.

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

I've been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I've played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

I had flops, I had success.

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.