The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...

'Ah John A. John A. how I love you! How I wish I could trust you!

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.