“I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows.”

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

All in all is all we are.

No True Talent is fully organic.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I’m not like them, but I can pretend.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in which my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking ‘This is the life’.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

I’m often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don’t think I’ve actually cried watching myself.

O God, make me good, but not yet.