I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

Wanna see the rest of my happy place?

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I know all about the tyranny of women.