You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.
Even with G.O.O.D. Music, we have artists that have done very well, and we've had artists that haven't. Being attached to Kanye is only going to get you so far. You've still got to have the records and the talent and the artistry on your own to carry it.
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
When you have quick scenes, it becomes difficult to ascertain where your character fits and where they're going. I always enjoy scenes that have a movement to them.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Make your plate colorful. A lot of Asian countries make it a point of having five colors present on every dish, which leads to eating nutrient-rich foods.
More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.