When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

From defilement can come much wisdom

Your thoughts and actions becomes your world.

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

You’re always making up stuff from the past, ” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened.

My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.