The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

All men must marry much younger women

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.