We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them, so our heartscan melt together.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.