The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.
There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.
I've had the most amazing interviews, and I've done interviews that were so bad, I was embarrassed to be interviewed. I've seen both sides of the coin.
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.
I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.
Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.
Life is not going from bad to good, but it's a balance of the two that kind of goes up and down. There are bad things and there are good things.
I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.
Everything has good and bad.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.
When I look back to my infancy many images come to mind, beautiful and ugly.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.
The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—
Technology is always a double-edged sword.
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for both.
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.
