Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.

Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

Sometimes it is better to say ‘no’ and lose your job than it is to say ‘yes’ and lose your soul.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.