I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

The new European Soviet.

I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.