It's hard to get concert tickets.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.

Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive.

Power is the great enemy of freedom

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.