“Art should never be an answer but a question.”

This question is posed to myself, am I a man who thinks he’s an angel? Or an angel who thinks he’s a man?

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire.

The crack inside your fucking heart is me.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.

We don’t like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

I’m all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.