I don't like begging money from producers.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

You either LIVE or you THINK!

She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

One must be one's own inspiration.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.