You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Be kind to others and you will find that others are kind to you. Being positive will spread positivity back to you. If you give out a pleasant energy, you will receive a pleasant energy.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.