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" Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11. "

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" What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go. "

" All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more. "

" I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me. "

" I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me. "

" There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles. "

" I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do. "

" I'm so used to naysayers. "

" Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. "

" Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance. "

" The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that. "

" I didn't like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school - less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time. "

" So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer. "

" If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?' "

" I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well. "

" For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. "

" I don't care about labels or anything. "

" Some people can't connect with their own emotions. "

" I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots. "

" My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy. "

" I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do. "

" My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it. "

" I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better. "

" Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. "

" I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often. "

" Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out. "

" I'm really into coconut oil for everything. I cook it, eat it, put it in my hair, and use it as body lotion. I put it on my face, too - day cream, night cream, whatever. I love the smell. It reminds me of the beach. I'm not particular on what brand as long as it's organic. "

" In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble. "

" I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors. "