"Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live."
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"What defines us is how well we rise after we fall."
"I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well."
"Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents"
"I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."
"The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well."
"It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing."
"Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems."
"Everybody knew that I could type pretty well."
"You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well."
"There are few things easier than to live badly and die well."
"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger."
"I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well."
"Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’and if they asked where you’re going, you’d say ‘In front of me."
"If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross."
"What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that."
"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."
"It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them."
"Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live."
"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."