America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

You need to love everyone.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being in my art studio, painting. Packing my bags tomorrow to go home to Kauai where we have a house. Which all sounds very grand, and I suppose it is, in some respects, but nothing comes from nothing. It all comes from hard work.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.