Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.