I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.