Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.