I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
I like guys who are honest and funny. Looks come and go; I want to be 65 years old and laughing with my husband.
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.
