“I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.”

I’ve always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

I don’t like to plan harmonies too much, because there’s something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.

California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone

It’s very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don’t mean to say it’s very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that’s my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it’s at and where a lot of trends begin. It’s where new filmmakers are breaking through.

The internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it.

Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.

Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.

In making a movie, you’re part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.

It’s not about women acting like man, it’s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

There’s thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

In its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.