Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

Whether it's about children or not, we have to move forward.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.