For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Well clearly Graeme it all went according to plan, what was the plan exactly ?

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.