I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Do what gives you joy.

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I had totally lost my way. I lost focus. I lost myself.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.