The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.