If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Our tasks must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.