France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.