He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.