I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of peoples hopes and dreams to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E I E I O.

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Walk on with hope in your heart and youll never walk alone

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!