Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.