Willem Dafoe is a shithead.
I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire. ' I like to keep several things going at once.
Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.
The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.
I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.
In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a possibility for me. I feel like I've irrevocably lost so much. You want the surprise, but it gets harder and harder to find, whether we're talking about romance, or somebody else's song, or your own song.
We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
When it's your time, it is your time.