It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.