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Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.

To me when I hear a song, its a positive thing because it reminds me of when I started!

Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.

I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and ‘Oh my gosh – look what it’s doing!’

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.