It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.