I'm a sign painter with no boss.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

A good, all-loving god would not destroy his creations no matter how they act. He tells parents to love their children unconditionally. I say 'you first, God.'

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.