All suffering is not demonic or possess demonic influences. Oftentimes, Christ is simply allowing us to be strengthen for the next level of destiny.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.