If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.

It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

With great power often comes great confusion.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.