It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

I just wanna throw my phone away and find out who is really there for me

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.