Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it’s how I’m an artist.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That’s a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Life goes by so fast. It’s really – and a lot of times things happen so fast you don’t know – how should I react.
We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
I’ve been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky – I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
The only stuff I don’t like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don’t even like to talk about it. I can’t bear musicals.
Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don’t want it.
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist – I’m happy to see the work.
As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I’ve never been in an audience like that, and I’ve never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, “This is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen.”
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I’m using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
As an artist I’d choose the thing that’s beautiful more than the one that’s true.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.