In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.
You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
It is quite difficult to notice and cherish most of the little blessings in our lives, if one's existence is solely defined by worldly things.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
