"I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems."

“The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists.”

Source : "Fracking Truth to Fracking Power" by Sandra Steingraber, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

“Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.”

“Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.”

“I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.”

Source : "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

“To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding”

“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

“Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?”

“To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.”