"I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care."

"If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it."

"I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy."

"Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist."

"I hope to inspire people, influence people."

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."

"The only limit to human potential is the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."