Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.