“How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.”

The only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. It was only really one time.

Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Show me a mall, and I’m happy.

I’m a regular person with an extraordinary job.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I’ll show you a person with a toe tag.

The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

I’m too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn’t call myself a woman. I’d say I’m somewhere between a chick and a broad.

An Oscar is a total honor. It’s thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn’t really mean anything. It’s a moment in time.

Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let’s love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

To me, that’s one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that’s a completely different approach

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

A good man’s life is all of a piece.

Is that what I’ve become, a piece of meat?

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world – “Here’s a million dollars for this latest piece of crap” – but I’m not about to go along with the gallery system.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.