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

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

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

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.

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

So we waited. I felt useless. I felt like I was in the way. I wished I had some nervous habits so I could indulge in them.

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.