There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

A problem that we're seeing now in the aromatherapy world is that the market has got so huge that in some cases there are not enough plants to supply the demand.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.