From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see.

Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well.

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply.

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.