Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.
I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe. I've certainly had players come up, even before the game has started, and say, "Hey, after the game, can we trade jerseys?" It's kind of like, "Well, let's get through the game first and we'll deal with that later. "
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.