Your Thoughts Create Your Reality..

I steal a glance when no one is looking. Especially at his neck, when he turns to say something to my mother. That slender neck, with its air of determination, brisk and bold…

If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere.

Be the chief but never the lord.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

What are you doing for others?

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.