The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.