I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'