An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

I became the messenger who had to be killed

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner