We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Problems are all in your head.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.