If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

keep following your heart.it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

All movies are different, all movies have their own life.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.