I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

My work... is my legacy.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.