"You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it."

“It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?”

“I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.”

“Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?”

“The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

“I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.”

“If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.”

“If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.”

“Try again. Fail again. Try better.”