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.

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

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

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.

Work hard in the day

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.