"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

“Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.”

Source : Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.”

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

Source : J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

“I never get recognised.”

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

“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”

“Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.”

“As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

“The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.”