You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

The only way to learn who you are is to leave home.

When flying dreams hit the soil of reality, all that remains are the imprints of experience.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.