I work without commercial considerations.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

May the Heavens be open to your prayers.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.