Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!
When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.
Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.
I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.
I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. . . . If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.