You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.
I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.
Both prisons and inner-city schools target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
The United States could become a color-free society. It’s possible. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s perfectly possible that it would happen, and it wouldn’t change the political economy, hardly at all.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
I think that it is important to try to sound like someone, especially early in your development.
No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
If wall street can borrow money at 0.75% interest, so can college students. We need to stop treating students as profit centers.
I’m not a politician.
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
I don’t want to sing anything that doesn’t come real.
