Things never go smoothly..

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone..

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day,….

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward..

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma..

You have only one life, make the most of it.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to ….

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess..

I don't really get recognised very much..

You are either going forward or you are not..

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else..

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming..

No one's going to shoot at me..

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid..

We don't have time to be sad.

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do..

In short, industrialism is over..