I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

He jokingly thought that this guy fancied himself some kind of Jedi knight, waiting for him to say, 'these are not the droids you're looking for.

everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help

When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.