"I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star."

“Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.”

“I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.”

“Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.”

“Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.”

“A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

“Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.”

“I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.”

Source : "Twitter CEO Hopes To Attract Users By Clearing The Clutter". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, nhpr.org. May 2, 2014.

“I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.”