Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.