I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

When you have a good time there is no time.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.