In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

I don’t care about money.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

This way of life is worth defending.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I like to take it easy.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.