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I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

We all have different dreams and different worlds we want to dominate. Your favorite food is someone else's phobia. Your dream job is someone else's worst nightmare. Your perfect world is unique to you.

I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

I think Tom Brady is one of the greatest competitors of all time.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.