Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most..

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know ….

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been..

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It….

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern..

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's….

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do..

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it..

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand..

The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed t….

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved..

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things..

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me..

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and c….

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect..

I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow..

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence..

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin..

Patients know what patients want to know..

I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win..