There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.
I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
I'm as left-wing as you can get.
When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
You have to be prepared to take a spill.
It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
Since 'Buffy,' vampires have become kind of softer and gushier instead of, you know, man-eating monsters.
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.
I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
