If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets

I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.