"From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus."

"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within."

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

"Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom."

"A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain."