I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a---Mother!I was going to say arm.

I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.