“New York City is my playground.”

My business doesn’t keep me warm at night.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I’m stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

I can’t just only be on reality TV and show everything when it’s the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Life is hopefully long, so I don’t know what the future will bring.

You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.

I’m always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Thinking about women who can’t have their own baby, even the first baby, I’m really lucky.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

My biggest ‘don’t’ from the past? Picking my face!

If I am not with my daughter, that’s when all my meetings happen. That’s when I get right on a plane. That’s when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it’s just all with her.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.

I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.