Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Why talk when you can paint?

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.

True poetry is embarrassing.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

I am in love with this green Earth.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.

Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.