Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Live a life worth living.

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

I really got into filmmaking through photography.