I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Life's a crapshoot, Sam. At least you filled the cheap seats.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.