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The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.