I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Love is an impossible concept.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

It brings me back to the moment, and I want to livethe moment with everything I’ve got.

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.