"I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials."

“Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have.”

“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”

Source : "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.

“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'”

“I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.”

“For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.”

“If  you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”

“There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.”