The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

One person should never decide what happens to the majority.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.

I've seen too many celebrities fall from their morals, and I wanna come up under that and be THAT girl that doesn't need a scandal to make herself look better.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.