I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.
I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.
I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.
We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on. This is going to be an issue in 2006 and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, "Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not, or is that going to be up to your loved ones?
You don't try to do more than you should.
I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.