"Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage."

"I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people."

"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

"We're still in the information-gathering stage. People like to ask strategic questions about what we're going to do."

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."

"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

"I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)"

"People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument."

"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."

"I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people"

"When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star."

"I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are."

"It's really fun to be on stage in front of people."

"People are terrified of me, and I want them to be."

"The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people."