I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.