It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.
Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.
With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.
When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.
In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious.
'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
