If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.

In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.