What is the point of living forever if you are stuck on a permanent diet of leaves and twigs?

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.