The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

[Last Days is, loosely, about Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the rock group Nirvana.] I had a house in the middle of the woods, ... I stayed alone the whole time, and I tried always to be battling with the things I thought the character was battling with - seclusion, drug addiction, severe chronic depression and suicidal tendencies.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.