The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

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?

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.