I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

I hate the idea of genres.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

I just want to keep writing music.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

The way to know life is to love many things.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Football is all about fans.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The artist in me cries out for design.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Love is only one of many passions.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.