I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

Life is, at times, tough...And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it...

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.