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.

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

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.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.