As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

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.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.