My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment. . . I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!
A burnt dog dreads the fire.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.
It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place. ' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space. . . so that there was a layered, shallow depth.
Murder shoots, I give your ass good seats