My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

My God is rock'n'roll.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.