singer-songwriter, poet, visual artist, human rights defender, writer, guitarist, singer, composer, musician, draftsperson, photographer, performance artist, recording artist, rock singer, rock musician, film director
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I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
Everything comes down so pasteurized
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
Look around you, all around youAre you ready to behave?
He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!
People have the powerIt's decreed the people rule.
Life is filled with holesCan't you show me nothing but surrender?
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.