For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Life experience is priceless.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

People are made up of flaws.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying