Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.