I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.