I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

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

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

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.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

Fast, worship, and seek Him.

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.