You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Choose the body to live in.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.