We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

The best motivation is self-motivation. the guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

It's pain that changes our lives.

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.