It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

Truth is the irony of fate.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!

I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.