My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I''m going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.