I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.