Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

Be passionately devoted to your dreams.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.