“The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.”

“Now I work down at the carwashWhere all it ever does is rain”

“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”

“God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.”

“Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.”

“Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.”

“Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”