"It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we're pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people."

“Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.”

“Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.”

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.237, LSU Press

“If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.”

“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'”

Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

“A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about [Parkinson's disease] to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.”

“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.”

“I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’”