All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

She trailed off when she realised Will was turning a dull red. For a big, muscular guy, he sure blushed a lot.

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

My name is Catbug. What’s yours?

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.