I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

No more crying. Tears only cause destructivefloods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Players will never do more than you demand.

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

Swearing when in heavy traffic.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.