I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.