Me Quotes

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.