Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Great artists suffer for the people.

I sing about life.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Don't you know that there ain't no mountain high enough. Ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough. To keep me from getting to you, baby

The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me the more I harmed myself.

Detroit turned out to be heaven but it also turned out to be hell.

If you escape from people too often you wind up escaping from yourself.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage took out to polish and show and put back into the garage.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Life is tough but so you are.

I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, 'justice' is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Knowing my circumstances from which I came and the path I was headed down, to be where I am, I'm blessed.

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.