I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

Pardon me if, reading that, I want to laugh, because you want to relieve me of a fear I've never had. I've never thought that, as they say, you eat little children.

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.