When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what … - David Lynch

There’s a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

Look at Van Gogh - The guy could not sell one painting and now nobody can afford them

"I went to a psychiatrist once. I was doing something that had become a pattern in my life, and I thought, Well, I should go talk to a psychiatrist. When I got into the room, l asked him, "Do you think that this process could, in any way, damage my creativity?" And he said, "Well, David, I have to be honest: it could." And I shook his hand and left."