Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.