“A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.”

We are all part of the ecosystem.

it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Three elections later, the president’s party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.

All I’ve ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

We’ve been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we’re just having too much fun.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.

I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.

Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

There’s a lot of good talent and the audience base is bigger.

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.

[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.

We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.