Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

You have got what it takes to live your dreams.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.