You’re weak. Be strong and it’s easy.
I think I remember from the offset I said, ‘I’ve visited this territory. This isn’t for me.’ And then I read the script and I said, ‘You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.’
I’m terminally dissatisfied. That’s probably part of being an artist.
Labels are for cans, not for people.
On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?
No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.
In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I’ve finally found myself, fighting for a chance. I know now, this is who I really am.
The bridge between reality and a dream is work.
When advertising is great, it’s transcendent. It’s art.
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.
I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don’t need anybody else to do it for me.
Live your life for anyone but yourself.
It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?
High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’
The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I’m not really in touch.
If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.
All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.
Don’t you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that’s phenomenal, something that’s great, something that’s undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?