When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Commies love concrete.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

I am the drop that contains the ocean