My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.

I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.