"The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished."

“Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.”

“Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty”

“I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.”

Source : Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. April 3, 2006.

“What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“A poem round and perfect as a star.”

“I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.”

“Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.”

“What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.”

Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.