Consuming is an endless treadmill.

Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.

The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.

He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.