I drink because I'm thirsty.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Petitions are ridiculous.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

When big bells ring little ones are not heard.

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, “ Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.

I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

Bottom line your body is a temple and you have to treat it that way. Thats how God designed it.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.