I didn't want to be anyone else.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.