Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

I spent all night feeding the homeless to dogs.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.