I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

Who knows how long the cold weather will last

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy, but maybe people see me, and they don't want to step out of line, or equate disagreement with stepping out of line with a writer they like.

Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

As a naturalist you will never suffer from that awful modern disease called boredom "so go out and greet the natural world with curiosity and delight, and enjoy it.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.

And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.