I'm never getting a tattoo. My secrets are etched safely on the inside and I intend to keep them there.

Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos.

A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.