Expectations are an evil thing.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

The old Lena is dead.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.