"I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there."

“For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.”

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“Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone can’t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty they’re adding to isn’t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.”

“When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.”

“Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.”

“The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.”

“Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.”

“In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

“My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.”