I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.