I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I apologize for nothing.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

I love anything that gets me outside of my own head.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.