“In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.”

I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

All art is knowing when to stop.

In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool.