Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Kita selalu jumpa orang baik-baik sewaktu mengembara, bukan sebab nasib kita baik. Tapi sebab Tuhan kasihan.

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.