Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.