Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.