Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

We'll show the fire how to burn.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.