I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'