Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.

I always act better when I'm able to curse.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.