"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."

“I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.”

Source : "Bigelow Backstage: ‘Don’t Give Up’" by Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. March 7, 2010.

“Now we have a gig economy where many people are holding down several jobs at once. The whole concept of a 40-hour week makes people under 30 laugh.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“Think with the whole body.”

“Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.”

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

Source : Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.”

“Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.”

“I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.”