I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

You do have to kind of sit down and try to write, because it's not the easiest thing when you're off and on planes. I'm sure if you're always on a bus, it's a little bit easier.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

When I first turned pro, I was making a lot of money, and I was spending money from two fights down the line.

I think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

I own two species of the raptors - Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

I like to work with directors who write their own stories.