I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Some people follow. Some people lead. Some kick back and smoke some weed… and breathe.

Because of the green-eyed one, I see red and that makes me blue.

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.