“I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.”

“You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a s...”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make livin...”

“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”

“It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.”

“I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks...”

“Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creati...”

“This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and l...”

“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modif...”

“For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.”

“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that surv...”

“We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work -...”