Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.