I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

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.

Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty.

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.