'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no doc...
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right. However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.
And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows.
