“It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”

Life with another person is always difficult.

What a beautiful island we live on! The sky has a permanent haze.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days.

Impossibilities will start to happen for all of us, like magic.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The summer clouds: reminded me of the summers of 1940s when the world was naive.

The wind is bringing the cloud to swim.

I’m not going to doubt my life.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The morning beam is telling me that it’s action time!

Every drop in the ocean counts.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

When we dream together, we create a new reality.

I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.

True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

I told the stars about you. I have reached the moon for you. Those two eyes of yours can swallow the deepest oceans. I asked the white clouds to fill us with colors. But soon I realized it was all you. Stars, moon, clouds, raindrops, universe. It was all in you.

Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.

You know, it’s no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.