I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.