If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.