I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.