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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.