When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Define yourself

Perhaps a human simply falls back into himself upon the disintegration of his physical body, and continues to take form within the self of himself, simply returning from whence he came.

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

Let the green girl go!