The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

I joined a band to hit things.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

Every life contains a novel.

the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.