I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Life experience is priceless.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

People are made up of flaws.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.