I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.