Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.
[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.
Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top of my game, I definitely think about the way that the world sees me and the way that the world thinks about painting. You must.
It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.