Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.

Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.