I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

What you see is what you get.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.