Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.