I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

You know the facts about me about which even i am unknown...

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.