There is safety in the very heart of danger.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.