I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.