“My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.”

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.

Life doesn’t happen to you. It happens for you.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.

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

I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

It’s amazing what’s being built with a focus on opportunity, sustainability and mobility.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.