As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

I never stopped doing anything [when I retired], I stopped getting paid for it.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom.

Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

Sacrifice everything and give up nothing.

Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

A day may sink or save a realm.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Fake people will hang around as long as you let them. So dont. Cut back on their time and spend it with your real friends

I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.