"The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is."

“When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams it and imagines it and does everything to get there, but you can't ever expect to sell 8, 10, 12, 20 million albums. It becomes this thing that you really have to figure out as you go.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

“My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”

“The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.”

“Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.”

“We need a greening of globalisation.”

“I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.”

“The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books