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I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.