A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

I've always showed up. If I got paid.

Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.