I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Every single line means something.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.

I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.