There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.

One of the biggest things I think we all can do is just try to live the best lives we can, and seek the best.

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.

I don't surf the web very much.

I have exes Im friends with and exes Im not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

I really like individualism based on truth.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Satan was the originator of sin