I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

There are very few people who do what I do.

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

When women thrive, economies thrive.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.