The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.

Just let me live my life.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

First things first, I'm da realest.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.