I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I don't believe in karma.

I like the energy of live performance.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Great minds think alike

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.