When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.