I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Keep Trying is what it means to resolve to do something.

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.

Internet makes you think that you have millions of friends, whereas you are your own friend.

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

I think that the biggest challenge for me making films is how much of your life you give to something. Shooting the film requires 14-hour days, six days a week.

If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.