You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

His speech is a burning fire.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

How embarrassing it is to be human.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.