I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.
I try to keep my private life kind of private.
I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
I try to prove everybody wrong and those who underestimate me, that's why I train hard.
We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'
