History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The law is above the law, you know.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

You’re my best friend, You’re my love, You’re my life.I can’t wait tomake youmy wife!Love, Ryan

Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.