When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

I am living breathing freedom.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Im a character actor at heart.

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.