I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.