"Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?"

“You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”

“No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.”

“I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”

Source : "Wall-E is Hollywood's new star, so why is he causing an eco row?" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.

“I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.”

“Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.”

Source : "George Carlin, my Father: Interview with Kelly Carlin". Interview With Robert W. Frashure, www.psychologyart.com.

“I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.”

“Create your own constituency of the infuriated.”

“I am who I am, a Southie.”