When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

Your true potential in life will always be greater than your positive imagination.

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.