“Life started getting good when I started making money.”

I wasn’t ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I had a very modest upbringing.

Because I’m such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

I didn’t do the typical things that young kids do.

My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

But I’ve consistently worked for 10 years.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

My parents were hippies.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they’re likable.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

Nana…how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don’t know why.

The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil.

They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.