I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

I like doing stuff with my friends.

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.