The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

You're crazy. You're impossible.' 'I'm crazy?' He tipped my chin up and planted a quick, rough kiss on my mouth. 'And I must be crazy for putting up with it.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.