I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Busy is an opportunity, not a dirty word.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.