Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.