"I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value."

“You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.”

“The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.”

“Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water”

“This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.”

“There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.”

Source : Mohican Press interview, March 25, 2005.

“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level.”

“I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.”

Source : "Gay Marriage Divides Black Religious Leaders". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 15, 2009.

“Numb the dark and you numb the light.”