And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!