Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.