You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.