If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar...

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children's education.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

Blink was pretty good, but they only had three members and Travis is arguably the most recognizable one now. And I wonder if my kids, when I have kids, will know him from being the drummer of...

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of...

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I feel like when you're making the album, you can't really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what's about or what you're trying to get across.

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural...

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

Generally speaking, talk to any stand-up comedian, the people in this world who are the brightest and have the biggest smile often are struggling with a lot of things under the surface.

Most married men are completely jealous of my existence - the way it's designed. As far as, surrogate wife, surrogate kids.

If you want to go into space the first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn't have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so...

I get to represent me and my family, but most importantly the Miami Heat.

Women are not different creatures from men. They don't need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

A new 'look' for any organization cannot be a papier-mache cover, tacked on with Scotch tape under the heading of 'beautification.' It has to be based on a probing examination of the company and the...