I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

He however knows when the enemy is stronger.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.