I'm trained as a teacher that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.

My choices were never wrong.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.