I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

In politics guts is all.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it.

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Build up virtue, and you master all.

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.