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

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.

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

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.