You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately,...

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

Instead of diving further back to the fandom as a child, more recently when I was training as an independent wrestler, that is really when women's wrestling took to the forefront and really started...

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Our servicemen and women need to know that Congress has their back by making resources available to modernize, train, and equip them so they can continue to protect vital U.S. security interests.

As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there's something about her that's just very honest. I feel like so many people across the board can relate to her and who...

Perry Farrell is so gross, and his wife looks like a monkey.

It's very different than it used to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

I love Topshop and live in its crop tops and jackets.

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively...

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you...

I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their...

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they...

I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.