I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.