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We’re doing this really fun thing called The Sleepover, where we picked five people from around the world - actually four people, flew them in and they’re gonna spend the night at The Lab tonight, and one person I’m gonna actually let sleep in my bed. Some people emailed me and I saw on Twitter, they’re like ‘that is just disgusting, how could you actually let people sleep in your bed you don’t know’, and I started thinking ‘god, I do that almost every night of the year’ *crowd screams* ‘No, not *that* way, you perverts! I’m talking hotels, you change the sheets’
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— Jared Leto @ VyRT Church of Mars
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I would like to put a few more hours in the day. To get things done quicker would be great, because that seems to be the biggest challenge for me - how do I accomplish these things that I want to accomplish in such a short period of time. And sometimes it feels like there’s not enough time in life anymore, like it’s already over, like my life is already done because there’s so much to do and so little time to do. Where do you find time to do those other things that you wanna do? Cause you can get successful in one area, but then you never see Sicily, you never go to see your grandmother one more time, or do other things. Success is a double-edged sword you know, and if you are fortunate to have some, you lose other things, you lose some of the freedom that maybe you have. So time would be good. There’s lots [of things] I’d like to do, both creatively and personally. I’d love to be able to take more time off to explore, like go to Africa for a year, you know, just get lost; to go snowboarding for months straight; to tour more. But you can only do so much, you can’t play everywhere all the time, you can’t take off your entire life and still hope to have success. So it’s that kinda battle.
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— Jared Leto on “If you could change something in your life, what would it be?”
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I’m kinda more of a science-based believer. I think it’s a little arrogant to think that we’re the only things in the Universe and that this planet is the only special place where life would happen. I think they’ll find other forms of life, whether it’s an insect or bacteria. I think it’s inevitable.
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— Jared Leto on “Do you believe in life in outer space?”
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A lot of people are gonna take the “Lust” part and think of something immediately sexual, but you know, lust doesn’t just have sexual connotations: you can have lust for your life, you can have lust for an object, you can have lust for your art.
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— Jared Leto on the new album’s name, “LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS”
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If you create something valuable, people will pay for it.
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— Jared Leto at Fast Company Grill (
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I’d rather have 10 followers who give a shit than 10 million who don’t.
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— Jared Leto at Fast Company Grill (
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I don’t talk about sports. It’s even worse than discussing religion.
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— Jared Leto [Soy Rock magazine, Dec. 2007]
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A lot of religions have quite a mythology built up around them to seduce… There seems to be an honesty in Buddhism. There’s a lack of hierarchy and ego.
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— Jared Leto [Kerrang!, 2010]
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The synthesizer is actually the first keyboard I ever had, the first instrument I ever bought when I was a kid, a Juno 106. I was 12 years old and I bought it with money that I made selling pot, and… you know, put it to good use.
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— Jared Leto @ VyRT [Dec.1 2012]
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I’ve never let a challenge get in the way of a dream. I was making music - and was interested in music - long before I was interested in being an actor. I was always really just interested in art. I was an art-school dropout. I always thought I’d be a painter, first. Then a photographer. Then a filmmaker. It’s all in a similar ground. It’s creative expression.
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— Jared Leto
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Number one: my mother. You know, our moms are often unsung heroes, especially for us creative kids, but my mom really showed me that being a creative person was completely unreasonable but very okay. And I really wanna thank her for that because I’ve had the most amazing life because of my mother.
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— Jared Leto thanking his mom at the Gotham Awards, Nov. 26 2012
