If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Old guys can still do fun things.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

So, do you live around here often?

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I like being around people.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.