I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.