I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?