Do you collect anything?

What was your first job?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

What are you reading right now?

If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Who’s someone you really admire?

Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?

Got any favorite quotes?

Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?

What was your favorite band 10 years ago?

What’s your earliest memory?

Been anywhere recently for the first time?

What’s your favorite family tradition?

Who had the most influence on you growing up?

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?

What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?

Seen anything lately that made you smile?

What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

How do you like your eggs?

Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?

Got any phobias you’d like to break?

Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?

What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

I love Neil Young. And he loves me! We have a great relationship.

Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al Qaeda.

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.

Not doubt certainty is what drives one insane.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

To me, the Quran is a research book.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

If you think youre free no escape is possible.

I like being by myself.

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying.

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.