Jared Leto

Bartholomew Cubbins is his pseudonym with which he signs the videos/films he directs (including most of his band 30 Seconds to Marss video clips starting with "The Kill").

Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

Chosen as one of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People.

Younger brother of Shannon Leto.

His hobbies include snowboarding, skateboarding, hiking, writing songs, reading, and painting.

Had a dog named Judas who died in May 2007.

Is in a band called Thirty Seconds to Mars with his brother Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic. The band has four albums out; their self-titled debut album, their second album "A Beautiful Lie", their third "This is War" and their most recent "Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams".

While preparing for his role as a heroin addict in the movie Requiem for a Dream , Jared lost 28 pounds, starved himself and denied himself the pleasure of then-fiance Cameron Diazs bed for two months. Leto admits that playing the part of Harry Goldfarb was "sadomasochistic... the hardest thing Ive done".

Attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

In many of his movies, he is disfigured in some way. In Requiem for a Dream , his arm becomes infected and is amputated. In Fight Club , his face is beaten beyond recognition. In Panic Room , he is badly burned. In American Psycho , he is brutally murdered with an ax and, in Lord of War , he is shot several times in the chest.

Transfered from UARTS in Philly to School of Visual Arts in Manhattan to study Film and Video.

Was engaged to Cameron Diaz.

Jared is a vegan.

He gained 62 lb for his latest role, playing Mark David Chapman, in Chapter 27 . Then lost the weight by going on an all-liquid diet consisting of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water. He lost 20 lb in 10 days.

(August 2006) Has been diagnosed with gout after undergoing dramatic weight loss. He packed on 62 pounds for his role in Chapter 27 .

He turned down a key role in Flags of Our Fathers in order to commit his time to his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Had a part in Phone Booth which was deleted from the theatrical cut.

He has two younger half-brothers from his fathers second marriage.

Was writer/director Joby Harold s first choice to play "Clayton Beresford", the male lead in 2007s Awake . He later backed out due to scheduling conflicts with his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars , and was replaced by Hayden Christensen.

Although he lives in Los Angeles, his favorite city is New York City.

Grew up in a hippie community with his mother Constance Leto , step-father and brother Shannon Leto.

He has English, Cajun (French), as well as Irish, German, Scottish, and distant Spanish, ancestry. "Leto" was the surname of Jareds stepfather/adoptive father.

(March 2006) His band Thirty Seconds to Mars will start their first headlining tour, Forever Night Never Day, on March 4, 2006 in Salt Lake City. The tour will be running through April 30th ending in San Francisco.

(August 2007) Shooting the video for "A Beautiful Lie" in Greenland.

(January 2010) Preparing for the Into The Wild world tour.

(September 2004) Is in an "undisclosed location" overseas. [Said to been have seen in South Africa.]

(September 2006) "A Beautiful Lie" has been certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000.

(October 2004) He and his brother, Shannon Leto , along with bandmates in Thirty Seconds to Mars have since gone overseas to finish up tracking on their new album.

(August 2005) August 30th release of his bands second album, A Beautiful Lie.

(December 2007) In Florianpolis, Brazil. To pass the new year with his friend from Incubus, Brandon Boyd.

(October 2005) His band is on tour with Audioslave.

(May 2007) He and his band 30 Seconds to Mars is touring Europe together with Linkin Park.

(June 2007) Touring Italy with 30 Seconds to Mars, performing in Milan and Pisa.

(April 2010) In NYC with his band 30 Seconds To Mars for their Into The Wild tour.

(January 2007) "A Beautiful Lie" has been certified platinum by the RIAA for sales over 1 million.

(February 2007) On the RockStar Taste of Chaos tour with The Used, Senses Fail, Saosin, Aiden, Evaline, and Chidos.

He is the third actor to have won an Oscar and play the Joker in live-action. The first two are Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger.

The first actor to play The Joker in a film that wasnt centered around Batman.

He lost 35 pounds for his Oscar winning role as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club.

As of 2016, Jared has been in two films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year: The Thin Red Line and Dallas Buyers Club .

He sent gifts to fellow Suicide Squad cast members including bullets, sex toys, a live rat to co-star Margot Robbie , and condoms that had been removed from the packaging.

Leto tore his labrum while performing a stunt for Suicide Squad .

To prepare for the role of the Joker in Suicide Squad , Leto watched hours of real crime footage on YouTube until he couldnt watch anymore. His reasoning was to understand how calm and deliberate a criminal can be and he wanted to apply that to the character.

He got the part of Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club after a Skype call with director Jean-Marc Valle. Leto took the call dressed as a woman and hit on Valle for up to 25 minutes.

Director David Ayer nicknamed Letos version of the Joker, Smiley..

Jean-Marc Valle and Letos co-star, Matthew McConaughey , both claim they never actually met Jared Leto until after filming wrapped on Dallas Buyers Club because he was always in character.

To prepare for his role as Harry in Requiem for a Dream , he lived on the streets of New York City with heroin junkies. While the real junkies were shooting up heroin, Leto would shoot up water to understand the feeling of how injecting yourself with a substance felt like.

He signed up for a 12-week acting course after he first moved to Los Angeles in the early 90s and barely showed up for it. He never went through any other acting classes or training.

Leto is also a successful tech investor with stakes in over 50 companies such as Airbnb, Nest, Reddit, Uber, Slack, Zenefits, Stripe, and Uber. He was an initial investor in Nest prior to Googles $3.2M acquisition. In addition to his investments, Leto also has 4 of his own startup companies including the online streaming platform, VyRT. He claims that investments could one day be more lucrative than the film and music industries, and credits his entrepreneurial skills to his experiences dealing with the music industry.

Leto purchased a 100,000 square foot former Air Force compound in Los Angeles to convert into a living space. Its complete with a swimming pool, gym, control tower, soundstage, screening rooms, and an actual guillotine. Its also the same location thats rumored to have been the location where the government shot the B-roll footage for the moon landing.

Leto created his own live-streaming concert platform called Vyrt. The service gives fans everywhere an up-close and personal access to his band, 30 Seconds to Mars. He has also used Vyrt to promote and stream his personal film projects such as the documentary series Into the Wild and Great Wide Open .

All of Letos tattoos are related to his band, 30 Seconds to Mars: - The Latin phrase "Provehito In Altum" is tattooed across his right collar bone. The phrase serves as the bands motto and roughly translates into launch forth into the depth. - The Alchemy triangle symbol for air, also the bands "triad" logo, is tattooed on the exterior of both of his forearms. - The red "glyph" symbol is tattooed on the inside of his right wrist. - The Orbis Epsilon, a circle divided into two parts with four arrows shooting out, is a favorite shape of the band. Leto revealed the back tattoo after he hit 1 million Twitter followers. - The Echelon "X" symbol, that is also part of his bands iconography, is tattooed on the inside of Letos left forearm. - He has large Roman arrows tattooed on the back of both calves.

He was crowned the "sexiest vegetarian alive" by PETA in 2014.

Leto originally turned down the role of Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club as he was focusing on his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, and had existing touring commitments. After reading the script, he accepted the role and started making his physical transformation.

He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City before transferring to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

As of 2016, Leto only has 22 film credits.

He only uses two custom designed McSwain electric guitars while performing with 30 Seconds to Mars: a black one named Artemis and a white one named Pythagoras. Both guitars are equipped with a Gryphon that Leto drew himself.

Letos film debut was as a young man named Beck in How to Make an American Quilt alongside Winona Ryder and Ellen Burstyn. He later reunited with Ryder in Girl, Interrupted and with Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream .

His characters are often maimed or disfigured in some way: his character in Fight Club is beaten beyond recognition, he was killed with an axe in American Psycho , severely burned in Panic Room , had his arm amputated in Requiem for a Dream , and suffers burns to the face in Suicide Squad .

Leto moved to Haiti when he was just 12 years old because his mother, Constance, was working with a medical charity. After the 2010 earthquake, he traveled back to Haiti to aid and assist the people. He also published a book filled with photos and experiences from his trip and donated all of the profits to Haitian charities.

Leto was offered a key role in the Clint Eastwood film, Flags of Our Fathers , but he turned it down due to touring commitments he had with his band, 30 Seconds to Mars.

Leto holds two world records. He and his 30 Second to Mars band mates, Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic , were inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011 for holding the longest consecutive concert tour, spanning over 300 shows over a two year period. Leto also has the highest documented score for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the SEGA Mega Drive.

Leto directed a documentary feature titled Artifact that surrounded 30 Seconds to Mars struggle with their record label, Virgin/EMI. It was shot in 2008 as a future promo project for the bands third studio album, but it turned into a full-length feature about the harsh truths of the music business. It was officially released in 2013 and managed to take home the Peoples Choice Award at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, as well as the 2013 Gotham Award for Viewers Choice.

Leto utilizes a pseudonym when he directs short films and music videos. The Dr. Seuss inspired name, Bartholomew Cubbins, is utilized because he feels that having his real name attached as the director distracts the viewers.

The video for the song "A Beautiful Lie" by his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, was shot on location in Greenland. The band hauled their own equipment on and off of live glaciers to achieve the shoot.

Leto gained over 20lbs of muscle as part of his physical transformation into the Joker for Suicide Squad .

The makeup application for the Jokers tattoos and pale skin in Suicide Squad required Leto to sit in the makeup chair for 4-5 hours each day.

Leto and his 30 Seconds to Mars band mates promote theme nights when they go on tour so their shows are never the same. Previous show themes include pirates, superheroes, zombies, anime, yuppies, neon colors, military, and sports. The members of the band dress up and encourage the audience members to show up in costume and bring props.

He returned to Haiti in January 2011 in the wake of the 2010 earthquake to provide aid and assistance to those affected by the natural disaster. Leto previously lived in Haiti as a child, but the 2011 trip marked the first time he had been back in over 20 years.

Leto is a natural brunette, but he has sported several different hairstyles and hair colors throughout his career. These include a bright pink mohawk with bleached sides, dyed blue hair, bleached blonde hair, long dyed black hair, and dyed green hair for his role in Suicide Squad .

Letos band, 30 Seconds to Mars, won the MTV Video Music Awards statue for Best Rock Video in 2010 for "Kings and Queens." The band won a second VMA statue in 2013 in the same category for "Up in the Air.".

The music video for "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars is the only one of the bands music videos since 2006 that Leto did not direct. He directs and produces the bands music videos under the pseudonym, Bartholomew Cubbins.

Leto developed a severe case of a bronchial Staph infection (Staphylococcus Aureus) in 2011 while on tour with his band, 30 Seconds to Mars. The infection caused him to cough and have difficulty breathing for an entire year. Despite his illness, the band refused to cancel any show.

Chosen as one of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People. [1995].

Stated in an interview that his role as The Joker in Suicide Squad was the "role of a lifetime".

Leto traveled to India to begin writing new music after Thirty Seconds to Mars wrapped up their 2-year tour in support of their third studio album, "This Is War.".

In order to gain the 62lbs required for his role in Chapter 27 , Leto would eat massive amounts of pizza, pasta, and microwaved pints of chocolate Haagen-Dazs ice cream mixed with olive oil and soy sauce. He lost the weight over a 7-week period, including not eating at all for the first 10 days after filming wrapped.

He has said he wouldnt consider a solo music career unless he felt that he wanted to release material that wasnt fitting or appropriate for his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Leto was revealed as the face of the Gucci Guilty fragrance campaign in September 2016.

Letos tattoos have all been given by legendary tattoo artist, Mark Mahoney. Mahoney also has tattooed Letos brother, Shannon Leto and mostly tattooed the brothers inside their own homes, not in a tattoo shop.

Even though Letos band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, was in support of their album "Love Lust Faith + Dreams" in the wake of Dallas Buyers Club , his band mates (Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic ) never saw him in character as Rayon. Letos explanation was that he thinks they would have felt uncomfortable because he was in character all the time. He did receive visits from his mother, Constance, while he was in character.

Letos band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, is managed by the high-profile industry manager, Irving Azoff. Along with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Azoff has managed artists such as The Eagles, Christina Aguilera, Van Halen, Maroon 5, Bon Jovi, and No Doubt. Leto also featured Azoff in the 2012 music documentary, Artifact .

Leto started working on the Thirty Seconds to Mars documentary, Artifact , in 2008. The film wasnt released until it premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.

The music video shot for the Thirty Seconds to Mars single, "Up In the Air," was shot over 4 days in Long Beach, CA. The video was produced and directed by Leto under is pseudonym, Bartholomew Cubbins. The video went on to win Best Rock Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.

Leto was loaned artwork from conceptual British artist, Damien Hirst, to appear in the music video for "Up In the Air." Hirsts art eventually became the album cover art for the Thirty Seconds to Mars album, Love Lust Faith + Dreams.

With the help of NASA, Thirty Seconds to Mars sent a copy of the debut single from their album, Love Lust Faith + Dreams, into space in 2013. The single, "Up In the Air" was played inside of the International Space Station.

Leto attempted to invest in Instagram prior to the companys acquisition by Facebook. He met with the company four days before the acquisition, but was unsuccessful in making a deal. He also unsuccessfully tried to invest in Oculus and feels he missed out because he didnt get involved fast enough.

In April 2016, Leto was cast in the crime-drama The Outsider , Leto plays Nick Lowell, an American prisoner of war in post-WWII Japan who joins the Yakuza to pay off a debt. Filming began in September 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will serve as Letos second performance since his Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club .

Jared Leto grew out his hair and beard for most of 2016 to prepare for the role of Nick Lowell in The Outsider and have the appearance of an American prisoner of war.

Letos former personal assistant, Emma Ludbrook , serves as a business partner and Chief Operating Officer for his startup companies, including The Sisyphus Corporation and Adventures in Wonderland.

Leto traveled to Budapest, Hungary in September 2016 to film his scenes for Blade Runner 2049 . He wrapped his scenes just prior to traveling to Tokyo, Japan to film the crime-thriller, The Outsider .

Leto began acting upon moving to Los Angeles from New York City because he felt he could get a job as a director if he did some acting first.

Leto listed his longtime home for sale in November 2016 for $1,999,999. The Hollywood Hills home, dubbed the "Mars Lab," served as both his home and recording studio for his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, since March 2006. The sale comes two years after Leto purchased the 1.7-acre Lookout Mountain Laboratory, a former military compound, in Los Angeles for $5 million.

After studying visual art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for a year and a half, Leto attempted to transfer to NYUs Tisch School of the Arts but was turned down. Instead he briefly transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City before dropping out entirely to pursue a film career in Los Angeles.

Leto has said the debut album from Thirty Seconds to Mars was partially based on a series of post-apocalyptic dreams he had experienced, as well as dreams about space exploration.

In September 2016, Leto lost a legal battle against the gossip-giant, TMZ. Leto sued after the website leaked a video of him making a negative comment against fellow musician, Taylor Swift , in his own home while listening to her album. The lawsuit claimed that TMZ had stolen Letos personal property and violated his privacy when it leaked on their website. A judge ruled that the video was never Letos personal property as it was recorded by a freelance videographer who promptly sold the footage to TMZ.

Leto was the first person in his family to graduate high school.

Leto attempted to contact Christopher McCandless family because he wanted to portray the outdoorsman in film, but his attempts came just after Sean Penn entered negotiations to direct Into the Wild with Emile Hirsch in the lead role.

In January 2017, Leto hired former Amazon and Audible executive Jason Ojalvo to serve as CEO of his VIP experiences company, Adventures in Wonderland. Leto said that he hopes Ojalvo will help expand the company into further arenas beyond music, such as comedy, sports, film, and television.

Leto officiated the wedding of his longtime friend, Emma Ludbrook , on February 10, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA. Leto became ordained as a Universal Life minister so he could perform the ceremony for his former personal assistant and business partner.

Leto has several of his own startup companies housed under the company he founded with his former personal assistant, Emma Ludbrook , called The Sisyphus Corporation. His companies handle subjects from VIP experiences, to social media platforming, to video production and editing. His startups include, but are not limited to, Adventures in Wonderland, A Sharp Knife, Paradox, VyRT, and Apocraphex Publishing Company.

Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, announced they would be joining the Grammy award winning British rock band, Muse, on a short North American tour in the Summer of 2017.

Letos VIP experiences company, Adventures in Wonderland, has partnered with musicians such as Rob Zombie, Garbage, The Chainsmokers, The Vamps, Blink-182, Marilyn Manson, Charlie Puth, and Nick Jonas. The company also handles all fan experiences for his own band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Leto made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, NV on March 29, 2017 to promote the sci-fi film, Blade Runner 2049 . Leto appeared alongside co-star Ana de Armas and director Denis Villeneuve.

Leto described the opportunity to be a part of Blade Runner 2049 as a great honor, as his favorite film is the 1982 original. At CinemaCon 2017, Leto elaborated on how Blade Runner influenced his life due to the films cinematography, art direction, directing, music, and acting.

In May 2017, Leto was named Chief Creative Officer of the online streaming website, Fandor. As part of the deal, Fandor will merge with Letos existing company VyRT - an on-demand streaming site that he co-founded in 2011.

Leto suffered a back injury while rock climbing with free-solo climber, Alex Honnold , in February 2017. The incident caused Leto to experience painful lesions that formed after the injury.

Leto announced in early 2017 that he was working on a second season of the documentary web series, "Beyond the Horizon" . The second season will air online via the AOL subsidiary, RYOT.

Leto attended the Gucci Cruise 2018 fashion show in Florence, Italy in May 2017 alongside fellow Gucci spokesperson, and former co-star, Salma Hayek. The show was in support of Gucci creative director, and Letos personal friend, Alessandro Michele.

Leto believes the future of technology will resemble science fiction.

Letos mother, Constance, sent him the property listing for his 50,000 sq.ft. former Air Force base homestead in Los Angeles. He thought she was crazy at first, but he quickly made an offer on the property after seeing it for himself. Leto finalized the purchase it in 2014.

Housed in Letos 50,000 sq.ft. Los Angeles property is a recording studio, rehearsal space, business offices, meditation rooms, and party spaces.

Prior to Suicide Squad , Letos most financially successful film was Panic Room .

Leto is endorsed by Gucci and Carrera and has appeared in ad campaigns for both companies.

He has said that he took on the role of the Joker in Suicide Squad because he was interested in the challenge and complexity of the character.

Leto was introduced to Zedd because they have the same lawyer. He reached out to Zedd with medical advice shortly after they met and theyve been close friends ever since. Leto even co-hosted Zedds ACLU benefit concert in April 2017 and the pair have been seen via social media working in the recording studio together.

Leto is close friends with Terry Richardson , Neil Strauss , Zedd , Leonardo DiCaprio , and Annabelle Wallis. Richardson and Strauss have each been featured in music videos for his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, whereas Wallis and Zedd have been featured on Letos online streaming website, VyRT.

He stated in a June 2017 article with the Evening Standard that he doesnt feel the desire to have children because hes too busy and wouldnt be present enough.

Leto wrote a brief tribute for the late Soundgarden/Audioslave vocalist, Chris Cornell on his Instagram. Leto toured with Audioslave in 2005 as part of Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Leto is a fan of the the cult Parisian clothing label, Enfants Riches Dprims.

Leto previously had two domesticated pet wolves named Judas (d. 2007) and Sky (d. 2012).

Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, debuted their first new song since 2013 with "Walk on Water" on August 22, 2017.

Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, put on the third annual Camp Mars festival in Malibu, CA from August 11 - 14, 2017, sponsored by AT&T. The first of two concerts was live streamed worldwide via Facebook and Letos social media website, VyRT. Other sponsors for Camp Mars 2017 included Califia Farms, Core Drinks, Vita Coco, Sir Kensingtons, Pop Chips, Soylent, and Health-Ade Komboucha.

Set to perform with Thirty Seconds to Mars at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on August 27, 2017.

He doesnt separate himself as a musician, actor, and artist. He considers himself a creative person as a whole and enjoys to work hard at whatever he is doing so he can share his work with others.

Leto hinted after the release of "Walk on Water" that the fifth album release might be the last Thirty Seconds to Mars album.

His favorite sport is rock climbing.

The first song he wrote after moving into the former Wonderland Air Base property is the 2017 Thirty Seconds to Mars release, "Walk on Water." Leto worked on the song for three years.

His band Thirty Seconds to Mars was one of the first bands on their initial label, Immortal/Virgin, to push for a website and online message board community.

While filming Blade Runner 2049 , Leto never visually saw his costars or the film sets because his contact lenses completely obstructed his vision.

Leto worked with the organization Junior Blind of America to research blindness in preparation for the role of Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049 .

Leto was an initial investor in Blue Bottle Coffee prior to its September 2017 acquisition by Nestle for $425 million.

In October 2017, Leto announced via social media that his band Thirty Seconds to Mars would do an extensive European tour in the Spring of 2018. The tour will visit 29 cities in 18 countries.

Leto performed with Thirty Seconds to Mars at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, NV on September 22, 2017.

Leto and his Thirty Seconds to Mars bandmates Tomo Milicevic and Stevie Aiello performed three songs on the BBC Live Lounge in September 2017.

I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is,part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I,would go do plays in Hoboken.

(2002, on what would surprise people the most about himself) Messing,with computer hardware. I take computers practically apart and put them,back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of,different computers.

At the end of the trip, she said it was so hard to step off the boat.

It was royalty or you were born into it, or it was some stroke of luck,or genius.

[on the 2010 Haiti earthquake] I lived in Haiti for a very short while,when I was a kid. Even though it was this small period of my life, it,was at an age and a time where that experience really stayed with me,and helped shape the way that I see the world. An entire country was in,ruins and just shattered to the core, and a year later it still is.

There was still a lot of work that needed to be done and I wanted to go,back to participate in some way and help people in need. So I went back,to Haiti.

I remember at one point I had dropped out of school and once I decided,to go back and finish, I found a school where I was able to squeeze two,years into one.

[on 30 Seconds to Mars] I was a musician long before I was ever an,actor. We were signed in 1998 and a band many, many years before that.

[on touring during the Arab Spring] It definitely made the experience,that much more valuable for us. What was interesting was to see that,not everybody agreed that the protests were the right thing.

I think as soon as your start traveling, your perspective changes. You,learn that the world includes a lot more people than just the ones you,thought. It teaches you a ton and it changes your life.

My brother and I were born in Louisiana. We climbed out of the muddy,banks of the Mississippi with our instruments in one hand and a fist,full of food stamps in the other. We had a very young mother. I think,she was pregnant with me and had my brother by the time she was 18.

I never really thought that you could be a musician in a band. I never,thought about fame. I never thought about any of that stuff. That early,childhood, that creative exposure, really helped shape my brother and I,in an important way.

I think the future is exciting.

I always say the bridge between reality and dreams is good,old-fashioned hard work. So work, work, work, and then work some more.

Never let anyone else stop you from being who you really are.

I lusted to make something great with my life. To pursue my creative,goals and ambitions and to make my dreams a reality.

[on wearing high heels and waxing for Dallas Buyers Club] I was vintage,only, so I was unable to enjoy the pleasures of modern footwear. I was,in 1985 which the girls remember, 1985 was not too easy on the heel.

[on why Thirty Seconds to Mars mixes genres] My brother and I talked,about that ever since we started making music. That we never wanted to,be pigeonholed in one genre or style. You know, I think if you use,guitars people are going to call you a rock band, but this album (Love,Lust Faith + Dreams), there are a lot of songs with no guitars.

[on not making any money prior to the Virgin/EMI lawsuit] Shannon and I,were living together, Tomo was working at a sandwich shop at that time.

[on admiring his mother] You know, we were born very poor and in pretty,humble surroundings and my mother always wanted to do something better,with her life. She wanted to do something better for her children. She,was a dreamer, she was a worker. She still is. So I think the biggest,inspiration and the biggest lessons she taught me was to dream and,then, to do the work that it takes to make dreams a reality.

And just a complete prick.

When I was a kid, on more than one occasion, I got in a fight with,someone in the schoolyard and the next day they were close friends.

happens?,[on his mother] She encouraged me that a creative path is a worthy one.

It was really brave of her to do that. The creative path is one that is,fraught with imbalance and uncertainty, self-consciousness, fear and,doubt.

But I have found that we are very responsible for our stories.

[on returning to music in 2017] I want to take our time with things.

[on working with Margot Robbie] Margot Robbie, one of the nicest people.

When I was a kid, I was really inspired by bands like Pink Floyd, The,Who, Led Zeppelin. Those bands really changed my life because they were,rule-breakers. They create music that was at once atmospheric, really,exciting, and full of emotion. They taught me a lot.

In film, there are people that have inspired me and taught me so much,people like Christopher Walken, Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis, um, again,mavericks, rule-breakers, people that really threw themselves into,their work. And showed me that the possibilities were endless.

Be brave, follow dreams, say fuck you to everybody and fight for what you believe in.

Don´t ever scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.

I always believe that the bridge between reality and a dream is work.

When you´re at the point you feel you have nothing to live or thrive fo, be like a camera, use your negatives to develop,You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.