Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.