When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.