Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.
If you lose your purpose. . . it's like you're broken.
To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.
Rock and roll is about having a good time.