I used to think I'd never get married or have kids. Peer pressure suggested I might be a lone wolf forever. I've always let life dictate its own terms. Marriage just happened.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

You have to be prepared to go along the way life takes you.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

If you die, you're not a failure.

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

There's no joy without pain and there's no sunshine without rain. I didn't make that rhyme on purpose, I promise!

I believe everything happens for a reason.

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the...

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my...

Life is hard. There's parking fines, PPI, the Kardashians - it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you...

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.