When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.

They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.