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It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.