If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.