I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.