“I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.”

I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool.

Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Why see the world, when you got the beach?

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn’t worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.

Each body has its art.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.