I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

Until we find an antidote to our ignorance, our purpose shall always be hindered by ignorance

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.