Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or someone else’s mother, it was like having the cavalry arrive.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.