I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.