Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don't want to see."-August thinking

I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.