There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.

I dreamt, I woke, I grafted, I failed, I persisted, I conquered.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.