My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.