"You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way."

"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."

"The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work."

"My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career."

"Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?"

"Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain."

"The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do."