I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

America is not the center of the universe.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.