My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shou….

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to m….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you ….

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it ….

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you h….

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..