“Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.”

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

I’m getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there’s no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if you get in trouble, you can find somebody in your age group who might recognize you.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.

It’s so easy to conform and to follow. It’s very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

10′ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I hate to run. I never, ever run.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something – usually an expression, something unique to their face.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it’s considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side.

I think where it’s going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad.

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.