“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”

Look at yourself in the mirror and don’t be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Whisper your dream to a cloud. Ask the cloud to remember it.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Change is not always bad.

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

How anyone could think of making money by fracking our planet, making this beautiful water dirty.

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Love is what it takes to fly.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Oh, another shadow! Do you want to join us?

Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I love my body. I’m very much OK with it. I don’t think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

The center of the stage is where I am.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”