My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.