Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

Time melts away in every passing moment.

You are human and fallible.

Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.