Here’s something I probably shouldn’t be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can’t stand it. It’s just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I’m saying this will probably be my last tour. That’s truly the way I’m looking at it.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy – a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying ‘it’ll never happen’, only to be confirmed by the Home...

I don’t believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set...

I’m cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I’m where...

I really don’t want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I’m saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the...

Who would have ever thought that I’d end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that’s what I want to be.

People wanna say that they’re part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We’re raised to believe that there’s something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I’m saying I...

Our party is – we don’t have the problems that the other party has. We’re not divided. We don’t have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their...

I’m still trying to figure out the secret relationship between the woman and the mall!

Everybody saying you can’t do this, you can’t do that. I don’t know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.

There’s so much corruption in America; there’s so much corruption around the world. It’s all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, ‘We don’t like...

It was a show that you played at home and you’re saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you’ve...

I’ve done a lot of acting. I’m not saying I’m the greatest, but I’d love to act, I’d love to sing.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That’s not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it’s possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the...

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, ‘That guy can write a story.’ It’s prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It’s very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here’s...

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: ‘You look really tired.’ This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

I’m not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and...

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it – why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the ’90s – ‘Nick of...

I’ve gone to skin doctors and they’ll say to you, ‘We should remove this because it’s pre-cancerous,’ and I’ll say, ‘Explain pre-cancerous to me.’ I’ll listen for about twenty minutes and I’ll say excuse me,...

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I’m...

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it...

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’.

I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, ‘We’ve got this book. I don’t really get it, but we paid for it, so we’ve got to...

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He’d run out of diapers. He’d run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy’s saying, ‘Help me! Take my baby.’...

Nothing is what it seems. Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan.

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying ‘yes and’ to other people’s ideas,...

There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.

I’m not saying that what the radio plays isn’t good. My issue is with what they don’t play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don’t you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly,...

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn’t any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have...

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it’s the rich people who keep saying it.

I personally have no shame in saying I am extremely interested in fashion. I am not as interested in trends. I won’t go on Style.com unless I’m looking for stuff to wear to an event,...

A witer’s mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Once you accept that we’re all imperfect, it’s the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all...

I just don’t like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to...

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it’s been something I was saying for a long time.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I can’t remember what I said to her, and she can’t remember what she heard. I must have said I love you.

I regret things all the time. I’ve never regretted not saying something. I’ve only regretted saying something.

In our story logic which we’re making up, if we’re saying he’s alive, then like a quadriplegic who’s in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can’t move his arms. If he...

I’m not sitting around saying, ‘Man, I’d really love to direct a western.’ That’s just not something I’m probably going to do, mostly because I’m allergic to horses.

‘MacGruber’ came to life mostly because we just liked saying ‘MacGyver.’ ‘MacGyver’ this. ‘MacGyver’ that. It’s a great word.

We wouldn’t think of going to our doctor and saying ‘Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,’ and yet that’s what we’re demanding in food production.

I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.