"Most of the things are either not communicable through human expression or they're top secret. Also I'm working on being a better person, and becoming more disciplined."

“What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?”

“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.”

Source : "PBS Newshour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives" by Jonterri Gadson, therumpus.net. September 13, 2013.

“I think that Twilight is so big that nothing can affect it.”

“I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.”

“Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.”

Source : "'We Want a Solution to the Immigration Problem'". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and Ralf Neukirch, www.spiegel.de. September 16, 2016.

“This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.”

“The reason I like incorporating the Yakuza into my movies - all their actions, everything they do, you can say 'It's ok because he's a Yakuza'. Changes happen very quickly in their world. If you were trying to make a movie about politicians, it would takes years and years for something to change; whereas for Yakuzas, it could only take one night and things can change dramatically.”

“I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.”