Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything. "
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.
After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.
I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there. " It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.
I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.