All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

I'm big in my faith. I try to keep God No. 1 in my life.