"It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day..."

“I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you get into that you get into a category where you lock yourself in and people look at you a certain way and then they become that way. Nah, I'm still an MC, I'm an MC first. People try to figure out my origin, at the end of the day it's just clever songs.”

“I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.”

“I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.”

“All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.”

“One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.”

“Culturally, now, we're really tight around death, and as a result I think people miss out on a lot of the beautiful aspects of the end of life process that can be very helpful for the grieving process, that can be a really beautiful part of transition of life that we don't get to experience because it's not in the conversation.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.”

Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

“Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.”