With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.
I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.
You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
You've got to build a career and a practice.
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
When you're with girl you want to be with, everything's perfect.
You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
The big thing is that you know what you want.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.
It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'
When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it.
It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
