No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles

But there’s that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they’re so heavy you can’t walk.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Life is a useless passion.

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.