You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

If there were no E.L.F, Super Junior wouldn't exist.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

The essential doesn't change.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.