You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.