“My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.”

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.

Life doesn’t happen to you. It happens for you.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.

This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.