The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

I continuously strive to touch lives.

All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.