I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.