I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

A real man makes his own luck.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

With me it's always about first impressions.

I paint abstract expressions.

I trust my instincts.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

My best evenings are at home with my lady.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

Stuff only allows you to rent temporary pleasure.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.