I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.