There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.