Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best musicians in the business.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

The biggest luxury is a job in which I get to live in New York, travel the world, and work with so many incredible people.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.