For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.

Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

Discipline is the bridge between a great idea and a completed novel.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.