The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

God made me and broke the mold.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I want the world to see my body.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.