The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.

Only the bold get to the top.

Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?