I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.

Treasure the journey, BE the destination.

Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.