Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

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When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.