People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

I treat Hollywood as my high school.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.