On music: "Music is real; it`s something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you`re performing it. It`s not air, it`s not wind, it`s not anything like that. It`s solid. It`s thick. It`s like summertime in New York."

Bijou Phillips- you never knew what the f**k she would say or do next. There is no line between her unconscious and her articulation of it and her behavior. She is a genuine psychopath. I say that with affection and admiration, because she`s also incredibly smart and talented, so she knows how to amuse and how to get and hold attention. If she were just a psychopath, you wouldn`t want to use her; you`d just be bored. But she is always amusing and interesting, and if one thing isn`t working she has a good sense of it, and she just starts on something else. - James Toback

On being world-weary: "I never had innocence."

On modeling: "It was like, I wanted to go swimming in the ocean, but I was jumping up and down in a puddle."