I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

Love is friendship set on fire.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

How many people out there really set a budget?

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.