I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song, ' but it can happen.

I was a sad kid.

You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

I'm not like a super duper sneaker head. I got a couple pairs, but I'm not a "stand in line for sneakers" type of dude.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.