It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.
Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.
In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.
Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'
That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.
