Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.