I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

It's never fun to read death threats.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning they are well informed.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.