I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

After all, suicide is contagious.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.