If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Dave Lombardo

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling; save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

I'm not a big sports fan.

Harlan Coben

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

Karl Malone

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Chinese Proverb

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

Adam Smith

Make a written list of everything you love.

Rhonda Byrne

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry Winkler