I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

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.

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.

I know there's a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

If I die today, it'd be a holiday

You must have me confused with myself

You are who you choose to be.

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.