Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.
It does get crazy sometimes, but I've never complained about stopping to give autographs or anything like that.
I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.
I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.
I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.
I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam.
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.
A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
I never had an issue with gender.
The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.
My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.
I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
