All good art is abstract.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

Guard your children's free time - from you.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.