As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point.

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].