Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.