I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

I have an amazing wife, Tia, and an amazing son, Cree, and I'm a family man first and they keep me grounded. They're my support system, so they make me stronger.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.