I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.

I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.

Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.

School is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone.

Family is so important. Friends are so important. You need that connection.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.

More young people need to come to the theatre in general.

All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

Give me dome dome da-da-da-da-da dome dome dome I aint trippin on ya money money long long long

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.