I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.