I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

If you don’t know who you are, you will be someone else

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

You can have, do, or be anything you want.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

Anyone who believes he is bigger than the system is wrong.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.