I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
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 got an audience.
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
