I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

Beauty lies in the eye.

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.