You have to leave room in life to dream.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.