Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Mo' money, mo' problems.

I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.