I just like going into strange worlds.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.