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

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.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

Writing is like baking cupcakes youre trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes its flour and eggs and stuff and with books its ideas and words. The end result is the same though you want people to eat them up.

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

Hes the kind of friend who will always be there when he needs you.

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

You didnt need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention you could pick things up on your own.

America is a beacon of hope for the world. And yet we are in so much trouble.