I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

I do believe in fate.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.