There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

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.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.