I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

I don't believe in trying to be somebody you're not - just be a bigger, better version of yourself.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.

I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

The Beatles are my number one - I think everything they did was amazing!

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.