In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Basketball Rule #4If you missenough of life'sfree throwsyou will payin the end.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

The most important thing is how you program and how you choose your records. That really does sort out who is a good DJ and who is just playing records.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.