Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

A country girl can talk her way out of a ticket.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.