I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The life is possible without the past. You can always have a fresh start with life, at any point. Each moment millions of children’s are born to have a fresh start with life.

In order to survive in a world of instinct, its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.

Are you ready to discover what is real?

All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong.

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.