The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

Her lips against his, the sun soaking into their skin, and the sweet, fragrant breezes that wafted through this isolated picnic area was nothing short of perfection.

Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Art cannot be above the battle.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.