And then she'll know the things I learnedThat really have no value in the end she will surely knowI wasn't born to follow

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.

Our bodies are the time machine.

What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.