If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.

I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.