I can honestly tell you, if it wasn't for our fans, there would not be Avenged Sevenfold right now.
What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.
In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say 'yes' to things; not like the endless 'nos' and 'hrrumphs' you get in England!
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.
There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.
We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
