"Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous."

“If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.”

“The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.”

Source : Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

“That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.”

“I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music”

“Everyone needs a little Edward in their life”

“These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.”

“Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition

“I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.”