"Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise."

"There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world."

"I have a fear of being boring."

"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."

"The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to."

"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"A courageous heart knows that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."