The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I just wanna be a rock star!

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Character is the salesperson

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.