Michka Assayas

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

— Michka Assayas

“I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.”

— Michka Assayas

“There are stories to tell that are not songs.”

— Michka Assayas

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

— Michka Assayas

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

— Michka Assayas

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

— Michka Assayas

Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

— Michka Assayas

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

— Michka Assayas

“I took a kind of ex-boyfriend initiative. I guess I wanted to know whether the past was still breathing inside of us.…

— Michka Assayas

“There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out…

— Michka Assayas

“He always had this thing about him, that he wouldn't nominate himself to run in the race. But if he was put…

— Michka Assayas

“So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people? I had a bigger hole…

— Michka Assayas

“Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly,…

— Michka Assayas

“Bono: But you write. Why do you write? Michka: well, because I'm unable to express things in another way. I often believe…

— Michka Assayas

“You have so mamy different personas. The one i meet in Dublin, the one who speaks on the phone. There are a…

— Michka Assayas

“Rage, there's a rage in me that I have to rely on others, even though I'm very good at relying on others.…

— Michka Assayas

“Time often is forgiving and dismissive of the influences, because they recede. We look at Sgt. Pepper and we go "wow! How…

— Michka Assayas

“I think the time that I knew that I was capable of all the things that I disliked the most in other…

— Michka Assayas

“The more you experience love, the more full of it you should be. But the opposite sometimes happens, because you fear the…

— Michka Assayas