I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.