Quotes

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.