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.

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.

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.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.