Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to see the light, and follow the stars to paradise

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

My set comes with a smaller fin in the back, i find this helps me release off the top a lot easier

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

From the moment you make a decision, you lock your thoughts in a set mold.