I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut.

Being scared isnt the problem. Its not running away thats the hard part.

There are amusing people who do not interest and interesting people who do not amuse.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

My staff would probably tell you that I don't want to leave events very quickly, and they're always pushing me to get me out the door.

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

I was always interested in curing the brain.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.