When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Our Problem and Difficulty in Life is that we Never know if we Give our Heart away to the Right Person.

If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.