I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Beyonce wasn't my friend. You couldn't tell me that Janet Jackson wasn't my girl. You couldn't tell me that once I signed to my label that me and J.Lo weren't going to have tea in L.A.

Hard cases make bad law

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.

I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.