The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

Love heals scars love left

Your life today is a direct reflection of the decisions you made and the actions you took.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

If you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.