I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

We each need to become our own hero.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Every storm runs, runs out of rain

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.