“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‘I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.’

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

A better you means a better universe.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.

We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.

Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.