American Quotes

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can d

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

I run every day now. I never ran before.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

I hate planes.

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I looked Death right in the face.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.