Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Raise, Awake and take stand. Draw the path for others. Be a Leader.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.