The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

I would recommend getting married young. That way you don't have all the baggage.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'

I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

I can't go to a restaurant or a hotel now without looking at the architecture and wondering how it would look if a character jumped off something - or crashed through it.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they normally would if they are being told how to think, what to do. I think when people receive information through art, they are more open-minded.

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.