I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.
But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.
We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.
I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.
In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
