"I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family."

“Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.”

“What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.”

“I eat anything, especially sweets. Chocolate, cookies, and I love mint-chip ice cream.”

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

“Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.”

“Celebrity is the religion of our time.”

“I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird. The only way I'm going to have a great season is by starting out happy and balanced and continuing to be me. It might be unconventional, but to feel good about life I need to have some adventure.”

Source : "The man in the Van" by Eli Saslow, www.espn.com. March 5, 2015.

“I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.”

“Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.”