It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.