American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I'm like, 'Thank you. ' I don't need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There's only one you.
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.
I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension. . . the world is small, the world is one.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.