I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

Don’t major on the fall, major on getting up!

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.