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

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

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

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?

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

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.