To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.