If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Some women walk towards a better future. Others have chauffeurs.

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.