That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there really is no external.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

Let us not take what we eat for granted

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.