A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.