Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

My love for you is passionate and strong.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.