I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.

... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.