I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

Beauty is not always in the face, but it is always in confidence.

....if you wanted something enough, you’d be willing to stand and fight for it, even if you got beat down.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.