Quotes About Contrast

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

I didn't just grow up lowriding: I grew up lowriding and also in mansions in Orange County.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I wanted to stand out from the other kids who had gone to Eton.

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots.

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I've done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It's called Laurel Canyon.