Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.

[Sculpturing] didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that.

Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.

No matter how ugly you are

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.