The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.

Leadership is having a point of view.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.