You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

Stuck in high school for the rest of my natural life. Talk about hell.

If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.

There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?