I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.