I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

You dont need money, or plastic surgery to be a star

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.