It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

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.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's...that's what makes us strong.