I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.