How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

Youre always fascinated by what you do and how other people look at it.

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

I think I always prefer the long jump, high jump, and javelin. I don't like the 400 metres and the pole vault except when I'm really in shape.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.