You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Art is a passion or it is nothing

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Under grace, God is the blesser and you, the blessed. Can you simply take your place?

Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others.

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.