When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it’s an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
Let’s pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you’ve got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I’m gone.
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don’t mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
If I hear, ‘Be afraid of Tehran,’ I’m like, ‘I’d better go to Tehran.’
If it’s a man’s world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
I am primarily a loner. I don’t go to clubs. I don’t hang out with people. I don’t know many people. It’s just the way it ended up. It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.
It’s not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can’t imagine that they will ever be gone.
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don’t end up like this man.
Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.
Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
I work pretty much every day. I can’t really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.