I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Life is like a B-picture script.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.