I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.