Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.