I am still working on patter and presentation.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

It's possible to change.

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

At the beach life is different. Time doesnt move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents plan by the tides and follow the sun.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

For greed all nature is too little.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

It's hard to imagine you've got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it's going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.