In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.

Humor heals the heckler.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Life is fun if you just find out how.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.