I have always been afraid of banks.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Socialism means slavery.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.