It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.