When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

God is going to ask you the same question every day. Do you trust him?

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?