I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

There's no way that you can stop nature.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

She is my "Soul Dog" and I totally get it now.

Americans never quit.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.