There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Reach for the heaven

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

You are the love of my life, and I'm so glad you found me.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.