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My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

When you're ready, nothing can stop you. If something's stopping you, you're not ready.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.

I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

The only key to greatness is humiliation; self or public.

she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone.

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

My future has been completely and utterly paved by the shattered pieces of a heart that you broke.