Our job as artists is to reflect the ills of society sometimes and to find a truth in that, and I think you can't start the healing process until you recognize the truth and all of its ugly warts and...

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

I'm not your quintessential liberal.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect, it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu, and personal character as possible.

In India, going to a police station is not the most pleasant experience.

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than...

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I...

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has...

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it...

I don't have a phone.

I tried being a stay-at-home mom for eight weeks. I like the stay-at-home part. Not too crazy about the mom aspect.

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.