A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

Man will never be stronger nor independent ifhe lives under perpetual motivation of others.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Real patriots ask questions.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.