A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.

If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.