I don't get mad too much.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

I don't get mad too much.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Spying is a like a game of chess Sometimes you have to withdraw sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Rumors are as dumb as the people who started them and as fake as the people who help spread them.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.

Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.

I've always been a night owl.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.