Feelings are something you have

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

You cannot be a secret and be profitable.