"The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go."

“I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!”

“If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.”

“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.”

“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”

Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”

Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

“I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.”