Even if the world outside is DESTROYING itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to EMBRACE and hold PEOPLE and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'

When I begin, theoretically and PRACTICALLY I can SMEAR anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to REACT to, by CHANGING it or destroying it.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our CORN or wine upon the ALTAR of our GODS.

Even THOUGH I didn't continue with my therapy, I went to church and received counseling from my PASTOR and got STRAIGHT spiritually. I was ABLE to turn away from all those things that were destroying me and FINALLY think clearly.

Let's not forget we created that IDEAL middle CLASS by destroying all of our industrial competitors during WORLD War II.

Therefore, until the day I DIE, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to TRY to stop this awful CORRUPTION that is DESTROYING our beloved democracy.

If you don't FOCUS on the future GENERATION, it MEANS you are DESTROYING your COUNTRY.

We do as MUCH harm holding ONTO programs and PEOPLE past their NATURAL life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first RESPONSE.

In LA, I mean, here's this PLACE full of desperate and SAD people who take their only pleasure from destroying OTHERS for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Our FIRST responsibility in the MIDST of violence is to PREVENT it from DESTROYING us.

Regrets are something you can't REALLY have as an ACTOR, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself... there's a lot of disappointment in this BUSINESS.