I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

I have complete artistic control and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

Gay people are the sweetest kindest most artistic warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects but I think I was a pretty good student.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant artistically alert community should be doing. After all it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

My parents are artists in their world in the world of modern artists you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Poetry is the work of poets not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.