If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

I'm conscious of what bands we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things: if I'm going to buy stage makeup, I want to get it from companies run by women. Those are little changes that will make a difference.

The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to?

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half.

I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.

We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want.

Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers.

If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, 'You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,' that would be awesome. I wish she said it to me when I was 12.

Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.

On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.

We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.

I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'

I was a child actor but not a child star.

There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

We are our children's first teachers.

There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.

I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.

When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him.

Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me.

It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that.

Having 50 to 60 years on the planet should give you a sense of how to master the way you look and live your life.

I learned tolerance at a very early age.

We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.'

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.

I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.