There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

Nobody should get married at 17.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.