American Quotes

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

I like progress but I hate change.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.