Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.