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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

I have always been a pencil.

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.