We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.

I am definitely a person of color.