I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Love what you have and you'll have more love.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

We need to make the private public.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.