I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.