I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

I believe in telling the truth.