"Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!"

“Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.”

Source : "Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.

“Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.”

“I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.”

“I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.”

“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.”

“Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.”

“To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.”

Source : "Robert 'RG3' Griffin III on Playing Football in a Political Town, Dream Pickup Game With Obama". Interview with Chris Moody, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2012.

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”