This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.