Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.