If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Roland had sworn off children—they kept trying to kill him.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.