"Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected."

"I want people to feel like they can do anything."

"I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings."

"I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real."

"I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about."

"I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber."

"It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes."

"Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years."

"I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid."

"I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools."

"I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring."

"In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover."

"If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that."

"I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that."

"I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush."

"Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana."

"I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'"

"I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices."

"Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around."

"If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well."

"I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do."

"No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on."

"As far as I can see, even now, after years of puzzling over the field of cognitive science, there is no clear line between entities to which science attributes mind and those it regards as mindless mechanisms."

"Mostly I saw her efforts to induct me into adulthood much as a calf might see its mother’s explanations of veal: I was being recruited into the great death march of biology—be born, reproduce, die."