The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should may and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

If somebody says no to you or if you get cut Michael Jordan was cut his first year but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Diplomacy n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

I like it when somebody tells me a story and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Somebody hits me I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

It's so amazing standing on the corner -this happened in Washington D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio and you don't even know this person and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

You know Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work and every single piece that he does is amazing.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

When anything goes digital let alone something as immaterial as a book there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.