I THINK about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the GUYS and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you FINALLY got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her PARENTS' house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her HOME nice and early.

When you SEE a rattlesnake poised to STRIKE, you do not WAIT until he has struck to CRUSH him.

I have such a CRUSH on Shirley Manson. I THINK she's the COOLEST THING.

Eighty-five per CENT of the crowd is going to fall in LOVE with me - they're going to feel it, WOW. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on AMAZON has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

My biggest CELEBRITY crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the LEAD SINGER of KINGS of Leon.

Gaddafi tried to give a masterclass to MEN like the Syrian DICTATOR, Bashar al-Assad, on how to CRUSH a CIVILIAN uprising.

I traded all my 'Star Wars' TOYS for Pee-wee Herman toys. I wonder if I had a crush or him or something? The COLORS and the WAY that everything looked so COOL or crazy just appealed to me as a YOUNG gay in Tucson.

My FIRST crush was BARRY Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was AROUND I'd KISS the SCREEN.

The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the TANKS to crush the netizens.

My FIRST CRUSH was my BROTHER's BEST FRIEND.

Emily Dickinson has HAUNTED my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a CRUSH on that spinster in WHITE, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

I used to have the biggest crush on Jimmy Kimmel. I LIKED him when he was chubbier, THOUGH. I've never REALLY been ATTRACTED to the 'classically' handsome guy. I've ALWAYS liked men with a little meat on their bones.

I don't PICK up TOYS. I CRUSH them.

Why do you WANT to get a good workout EARLY in the MORNING? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of MIND where you can CRUSH things, which is where you want to be.

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was LIKE, 'Can I get this?' It was LITERALLY her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I FELL in love with her. It was an early CRUSH for me.