It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Marc Jacobs

We are all living inside a box and we get our information from a box. The box is not real, but we are.

James Dye

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Shvetashvatara Upanishad

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Dave Grohl

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

Paul Cezanne

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!

Halldór Laxness

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Joseph Kosinski

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)