“I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.”

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can – they want the popular vote.

There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We’re not just doing this for the money! We’re doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up.

Finally brothers and sisters; whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That’s what its about at the end of the day.