The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

I love being in love. It's the best feeling in the world. I have never felt like this before.

Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.