I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

It's okay to start over again.