Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.