If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.
Know your career values: Not your parents' values, not your friends', but what you personally value in work. For me, it's things like moving quickly and scrappily, ownership and authority over my work, and flexibility.
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
