I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters?

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.