I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

I try to keep my private life private.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

Jewish men don't know anything.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]