When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

Dhoni is one guy who doesn't know the meaning of fear.

The class war is over.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.