Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

My aspirations were never anything other than I really, really admired certain singers over the years, and I just wanted to do the best I could. And that has been kind of like the way I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a career, have some success, and yet continue to learn my craft.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.