One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.