I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.

Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.

If there's no chocolate in Heaven, I'm not going.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

I always get more applause than votes.