Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.