I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Nothing happens randomly.

There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.

Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.