"When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it."

"There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that."

"I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be."

"What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings."

"Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death."

"It is a unyielding truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."