I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

I've asked Comedy Central, and they just say, "I don't know." It took Showtime two years to put my special on DVD. Owning your own content is the single most important thing in the world.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.

As for me, I cannot understand how it is possible not to be always thinking of God.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.