Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

Inspiration ends when reading ends.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

The best gift you can give yourself is to give to someone else

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Who wants to privatize Medicare.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

We die, and we do not die.