Art is the consciousness of currency.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I used to cut out paper dolls.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."