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I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.