“It’s funny because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.”

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Do what you really want to do. Don’t play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.

Explore purity.

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

I think everybody’s nuts.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.

I’ve never been particularly ambitious. I’m driven by the moment.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There’s a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look – at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

Katy Perry still gets me every time. She’s very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!