Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

I feel quite grounded, which is great.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.