“Art to me is a question mark.”

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

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.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.