Philosophical Sayings

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say no.

Nothing takes the past away like the future.

Only the one that hurts you, can make you feel better.

If you don't make the choice And you don't use your voice Someone else will speak for you instead.

I just I wanted to to make a difference in the world i wanted to be somebody. and um I wanted to be a rebel.

I always hated doing what everybody else. did.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

I see a huge paradox in me – the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, bec…

For some reason, I feel like I never left high school, because I still feel that if you don't fit in, you're going to get your ass kicked. That hasn't really changed for me. I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed t…

I have never lived an ordinary life. I think it's stupid for me and for anyone else, I don't think I would have become someone if I had made conventional choices.

I love being a notable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, tragic and comical way. I like to leave the same impression that made Marylin Monroe arouse different feelings in people.

I said, 'Wait a minute, isn't Price running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick and his butt hanging out?' Yes. He was. But he was a man. This was the first time I truly understood that women really did not have the same freedom as men.

I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love someth…

Women have been so oppressed for so long that they believe what men say about them. And they believe they have to back a man to get the job done... As women we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other worth. Seek out strong women to be…

My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always pushing me. I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being, but then I feel I am still mediocre and uninteresting unless I do something else. Because even …