Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

Your mind is the most fertile and largest land in the universe. You can grow anything you desire.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.