I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

I am nothing that isn't professional.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!

We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.