We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.