Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.