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" I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. "

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" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

" Talent is very hot. "

" In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

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" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. "

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "

" The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. "

" I've never been interested in celebrity. "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. "

" I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "

" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "