It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically..

God isn't who we hope He is. God is who His word says He is..

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive..

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at..

Truth implies meaning..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way….

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it..

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

I'm always geeking out about something..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

Unless you go forward then you are going back..

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..