An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance.

The more you expose, the less personal it becomes

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Twitter is the world.

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

Never lie in writing.

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.