Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

...no worship is better than apathetic worship.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

How can you lose when you're doing you?

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)