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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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