“The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.”

Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‘I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.’

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

A better you means a better universe.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.

Life doesn’t happen to you. It happens for you.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.