If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.