"The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!"

“I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.”

“My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.”

“Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

“Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.”

“Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.”

“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.”

“Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?”

“In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society”