"You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy."

"Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice."

"Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being."

"An artist should not fall in love with another artist."

"In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work."

"I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home."

"Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today."

"The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness."