These days, it’s good health and peace.

Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.

Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings.

Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.

Transcendental Meditation, it’s obviously the most important thing to do day in and day out. Transcending is the key to a better and better life, and this idea is catching on more and more in the world.

Well, my family moved to Alexandria, Virginia from Boise, Idaho when I was in the eighth grade. Pretty soon after that, one night, on the front lawn of my girlfriend’s house, I met a boy named Toby Keeler, who went to a private school. He told me his father was a painter. At first I thought he meant a house painter, but then he said, “No, fine art painter” and a bomb went off in my head. In that millisecond, I only wanted to be a painter.

Be true to yourself. Find your own voice and be true to that voice. Never take a bad idea, but never turn down a good idea. And, of course, have final cut. And be true to the ideas.

The studios are superreluctant to give final cut. They have so much money riding on these things, so they want a committee to go and rule the roost.

I noticed I did have an anger. Many people have anger and I was one of them.

To me, the greatest master that ever walked the earth. Maybe some could be as great, but none could be greater.