Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

I believe in it because it is impossible.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.