I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.