One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.

Always look heavenward in any situation.Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.