I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

I've always been a direct guy.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

“Don’t bet against Apple.” That’s my go-to mantra when someone asks me about Apple’s future as a market leader, or the success of any new iPhone. If the company’s performance this quarter didn’t wow you, the next one probably will.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.