“I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.”

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night’s starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.

I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.

I wake up in the morning and I say ‘Ahh! Today’s the day for a song! I’m going to write a song today!’ And I do. I write a song.

I’m doing a two-hour show every day, so you can eat what you want.

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.