I wear a mezuzah just to remind me, just to make sure that there is never another holocaust anywhere.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.
I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.
I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.
Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.