To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden

You might be a redneck if you move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it has turned yellow.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

A Marine is never intimidated.