The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.