You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

When you release endorphins, you just feel good.

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.

You can make anything by writing.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from life you become.

In the depth of cold, warm magnetizing feelings, Listen to the sound of love in a happening hug, In deep connection of being human, in an innocent expression.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.