Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.