Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

I have two eyes, and I go to see the ice.

My father is an amazing man.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.