I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things

Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.

Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

One real world is enough.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.