I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.