I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.