An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

If I see darkness in politics I bring light to it.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.