I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.
Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.
Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.
The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that's probably about all there is. So in the scheme of things, the firms are all relatively small.
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
I'm not physically harming any of these people by being high, and it's just interesting to see that I feel like my values and morals don't change at all when I'm high, but that's a constant. The thing that changes when I'm high is I am happier, and I'm not good with numbers.
I decided to run for governor because I got mad. . . I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.
Dodd-Frank was passed. . . . This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There've been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank. . . . I would repeal and replace it.