There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I really like children to watch my movies.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Music is in my DNA!

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Be not a slave of words.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!