I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!

To all those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: 'Can we borrow yours?' and he said, 'Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.'

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

Each of us is ultimately alone.