I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.